ألا أكون
مرة أخرى
-وإلى الأبد-
الطرف الأكثر حماسًا.

I was happy three days ago. Today I'm depressed. What happened? Nothing. An inner crutch slipped. Some poorly suppressed memory rose to the surface.

- Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones."

- Author, Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska.

I hope you find someone who speaks your language so you do not have to spend an entire lifetime translating your soul

Maybe the little things that you consider your weaknesses are actually the things that people treasure the most about you. Maybe you hate that you care too much...or that you wear your heart on your sleeve, but some people think that's the best damn thing about you. We all have different little things that make up who we are; we don't need to change those things, but we can choose who we share them with.

تُهتُ بعينيها و ما عَلِمَتْ .. إني وَجدتُ بعينِها وَطَني

I no longer allow people to cause chaos within my life. I learned that I am deserving of peace. That I do not have to ask for love. I learned that I am allowed to choose who I want around me, and who I never want near me. This life is the only thing that is truly mine, and I refuse to feel guilty for wanting tranquility.

I find pieces of you in every song I listen to.

what if your markers of success were how well you slept at night? how many books you read? how easily you laughed? how much time you spent storytelling, feeling warm in the arms and homes of people you adore.